The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 2, 1924, Page 1

This Week Is Anti-War Week THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 116. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Outside Chicago, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year, TO ALL WORKERS! DOWN WITH THE MOBILIZATION SCHEMES OF THE CAPITALIST MASTERS! THE DAILY WO Entered as Second-class matter September 21, ‘1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1924 <*" KER. 5 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, IL This Week Is Anti-War Week CENTS Including ‘ Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. Price 5 Cents OPEN LETTER FLAYS GOMPERS Foster Denou RADEK PREDICTS FROM ALLIED NEW WAR CONFERENCE AT MOSCOW ANTI-WAR MEET (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, August 1.—A huge anti-war demonstration took place here today in commemoration of the tenth ‘anniversary of Russia’s entrance into the great war. The Executive Committee of the Communist Party issued a manifesto declaring the “bourgeoisie of the world with the aid of thé second internationale, is preparing for another war.” Karl Radek, of the Soviet, commenting upon the allied con- ference at London, said: “The hegemony of capital never appegred in a clearer light STRIKING CAR BUILDERS HOLD LINE UNBROKEN Hear Carmen’s Union Organizer Hogan By JACK McCARTHY. The striking car-builders of Hegewisch at their latest strike meeting showed a real fighting spirit. Everyone of the strik- ers were determined to carry on the fight against the wage reductions of the Western Steel and Foundry company. Up until this time, the begin- ning of the fourth week, Trade Union Educational League, Workers Party, and Young Workers League members have been the most active in assist- ing the striking car builders. These militants are largely respons- ible for securing E. K. Hogan, grand lodge representative of the Brother- hood of Railway Carmen, to take charge of the strike. The strikers after listening to Ho- gan, elected a committee to negoti- ate with Mr. Bock, general superin- tendent of the company. This com- mittee called on Bock at his office who made them a proposition of a one sent increase by offering them 36 cents instead of 35 cents which they received for the work on each car vefore the strike started. Workers Reject Cent. This proposition the committee rep- -esenting the strikers rejected. After- wards Mr. Bock informed them that 1e did not want to deal with a com- nittee, that he wanted to speak with ill the strikers. During the com- nittee’s interview with Bock the striking car builders remained in the all to hear the committee’s report. \fter the committee returned and save their Yeport the men in the hall nsisted on the committee's recogni- ion by the company’s representa- ives. Mr. Bock’s trick in trying to get the workers to come into the plant did 1ot work. His idea was to get the nen in and by this means get them livided and break their solidarity. fhe workers were wise to this icheme. “Mr. Bock wants us to go lown to the plant. When he gets us here he will divide us into groups vith Mr, Buekley, one of his lieuten- ints and some of the foremen, speak- ng to the strikers in groups and try o get us to accept the company’s dkoposition.” Striker’s Hand Strong. The same strike committee were igain sent to interview Mr. Bock to nform him that the strikers were standing solid behind the committee, ind that-the striker’s committee has ust as much right to represent strik- ng car.builders as he, Mr, Bock, or qny other, company official, had to represent ‘the stockholders of the vompany. | Production in the Western Steel ‘ar Foundry Company@is at a com- (Continued on page 2) than this latest attempt of the bourgeoisie to attempt to solve this problem. It will very likely lead to a new war.” War Preparedness Plans Denounced by Communist Speakers Hundreds of workers gathered at Wicker Park Hall, cheered the call for support of the Communist tick- et in the coming presidential elec- tion and applauded the denunciations of the preparedness plans for the com- ing war, made by Robert Minor, edi- tor of The Liberator, and Max Shacht- man, of The Young Worker. “The coming election of a presi- dent of the United States is an inter- national election,” said Minor. “It will be to choose a head—or at least a figure-head—of an international em- pire. It wilt also be a war election —to choose the nominal leader of the greatest group of the imperialists of the world in the most terrific wer ever seen. “Coolidge and Davis and LaFollette stand as a unit in favor of the im- perialist Dawes plan. This plan, con- cocted by the office boy of the House of Morgan, means not only thé en- slavement of the German working class, but by the very provisions of the plan, the degradation of labor all over the world. It means that the United States has taken the decid- ing step in its imperialist advance upon Europe. Teapot or Wall Street. “In the coming election you have the choice between Coolidge who rep- resents the Teapot Dome oil thieves, with Mr. Dawes, virtually the bank clerk of Morgan,” continued Minor, (Continued on next page.) ‘HE political situation in the United States is a challenge to every worker who has any con- sciousness of the interests of the workers as a class. The capitalist dictatorship has nominated its candidates. There is no question of what these candi- dates stand for. Coolidge and Davis are open and avowed upholders of the present industrial order. They stand for things as they are and have been. F It either is elected President of the United States, the government: | al power will be used to maintain the present system of exploitation. Striking workers will be met with injunctions as sweeping or even more sweeping than the infamous © Daugherty injunction, Either, as President, will fill the industrial fields in which workers are on strike with troops as Harding filled the coal flelds with troops in 1922. There will be even more ruthless governmental boards fighting the workers’ demands for higher wages and better working conditions than the Railroad Labor Board thru which the government has given such signal aid to the railroad own- ers in their fight against the rail- road unions. No worker need have any illu- sions of how this country will be governed if either Coolidge or Da- tember 12. Calvin Coolidge, President, claimed by you. RIVAL FACTIONS IN FIGHT FOR LW. W. CONTROL Rank oad File Back Doyle-Fisher Group A factional fight in the Indus- trial Workers of the World, which has long been brewing, has come to a climax by the ejection from the general head- quarters of one group of Gen- eral Executive Board members by another group acting with a “rank and file committee” in support of the elected General Secretary, Tom Doyle, and General Organizer, Joe Fisher. 4A split in the I. W. W. is-threat- ening as a consequence. A special bulletin has been issued charging the ejected men with a series of violations of the constitution of the I. W. (Continued on page 2.) MOBILIZATION DAY SCORED [8 a telegram to Calvin Coolidge, William Z. Foster, National Chairman of the Workers Party and its candidate for president, denounced the plan to mobilize the war ma- chinery of this country on September 12th as a scheme to fool the workers and to instill a jingoistic spirit into them. The Workers Party, Foster declared, would continue to op- pose all capitalist wars and will refuse to participate tn the militarist exercises on Sep- The telegram follows: Chicago, Ill., August 1, 1924. White House, Washington, D, C. As the Workers Party candidate for president | denounce the sinister purposes of the military clique that has foisted mobilization day, September 12th, upon the nation. This is an attempt of the war-makers to obscure the real issues of unemployment, use of in- junctions in labor disputes, open shop conditions and general economic ruin and misery that is upon the masses of the workers and farmers. It is an attempt to inflame the pas- sions of the people in support of your Dawes plan, that will enslave the workers of Europe. Should your plan fall thru you and your capitalist-militarist supporters will try to force the workers and poor farmers of America into a new war to collect your Euro- pean debts. To all capitalist imperialistic wars we stand in militant opposition. Workers Party of America will call upon the masses to oppose such war. The Workers Party of America will urge the workers and poor farmers to oppose your “defense” and preparedness and to refuse to participate in the September 12th mobilization day pro- WILLIAM. Z. FOSTER, National Chairman, Workers Party of America. : The REVOLT AGAINST WHITE MAN’S GOD MARKS OPENING OF HUGE NEGRO CONGRESS IN NEW YORK By CATO JONES. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, August 1— With the strangely impressive pomp and cere- mony peculiar to the dramatic genius of colored people, the grand opening of the fourth fiitérdational convention of thé Négro"peoplés of the world is under way here today. The doors of Carnegie Hall are crowded with thou- sands upon thousands of colored men and women of New York and from many miles around, while delegates#—*———_________. from many countries of colored popu- lation, some speaking only Spanish or French, give a picturesque air to the scene. Inside the hall is the crash of mu- sic of distinctly better sort than is usually heard at conventions — pro- duced by Negro artists. The spell of ceremonial is ¢ast over the proceed- ings. Uniformed members of the Uni- versal Negro Improvement Associa tion, the body under whose initiative the convention is held. march to and fro in military style. The red, black and green flag, considered the “na- tional” emblem of the Negroes, is much in evidence. After the ‘opening ceremony and welcoming speeches of this evening, the convention goes into business ses- sions that will last an entire month at Liberty Hall, 120 West 138th St. The first subject up for discussion (Continued on page 2) THE DAILY WORKER CIRCULATION DRIVE AD IS ON PAGE THREE Turn to page three and read the advertisement headed by the silo- gan, “Vote and work for Foster for president.” The DAILY WORKER makes a very attractive offer to new subscribers during the election campaign. Read the details of the offer on page 3. Every reader of the DAILY WORKER shoutd be fired with enthusiasm during the great fight, in which the Workers Party representing the message of Communism is arrayed on one side and on the other the forces of reac- tion and capitalism, from Coolidge to LaFollette and from Morgan to Gompers. By C. E. RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary, Workers Party vis is elected President. It will be a government of, for and by the dictatorship of capital- ism. Next to the candidates of the capitalist dictatorship, stands La Follette. Because LaFollette is seemingly opposed to the capital- ist dictatorship, many workers and farmers are suffering from the il- lusion that LaFollette will make their fight against the capitalist dictatorship. They overlook the fact that there is an economic group in the United States which has interests which clash with those of the. big capitalists, but whose interests are not those of the workers and exploited farmers. The ,things that will help the inde- pendent’ manufacturers, bankers and merchants, are not things which will help exploited industrial workers and farmers. The inde- pendent manufacturers, bankers and merchants are in the business of exploiting the industrial work- ers and farmers just as are the big capitalists, Bt It is true that they don’t get as large a share of the results of the exploitation of the industrial work- ers and exploited farmers as do the big- capitalists. That is the reason they are entering politics, They “want political power so that they can get a bigger share of the pro- fits made out of the work of the industrial workers and exploited farmers. The LaFollette program is their program. LaFollette’s platform is the eco- nomically reactionary proposal to “bust the trusts” and restore free competition. From an economic viewpoint, this is even more reac- tionary than anything that Davis or Coolidge stand for. These two candidates, at least, support the development of the capitalist indus- trial order which is creating the basis for socialization of industry, while LaFollette wants to go back- ward and destroy this basis and restore the paradise of little busi-. ness men—free competition. Against the candidates and pro- gram of big business and against the candidate and program of little business, the Workers Party rais- es the slogan of revolutionary cla: action. It has nominated candidates who stand on a platform that represents the class interests of the exploited industrial workers and the exploit- ed farmers, The largest part of the Farmer- Labor movement has been swept away by the LaFollette candidacy. It is this fact that made it impos- sible to carry on the fight against LaFolletteism and against the capi- talist dictatorship on the Farmer- habor Party platform with Farm- er-Labor Party candidates. The Soolalist Party, which for twenty. years stood for independent political action by the workers, has been swept away as the tail to the kite of the LaFollette candidacy— on a trust-busting program. That is the greatest irony of the situa- tion. The Socialist Party for twen- ty years has declared to the work; ers that the trusts, the great or- ganizations of production, are the products of economic evolution and cannot be destroyed, is now going along with Don Quixote LaFollette in his attack on these economic windmills. What the Class Conscious Worker Can Do. What should the class conscious worker do in this situation—those “workers who realize that the exist- ing government is a capitalist dic- jatorship and who understand that LaFolletteism is not a working class program? There is only one course open for them—to join the Workers Party, The political situation as above outlined clear the road for the building of a powerful revolution- ary party in the United States. The Workers Party, as a Communist Party, is the only party with the right to that title. It is the only party with a program which repre- sents the class interests of the workers. The Workers Party has shown by its past struggles that it already has a strong organitation which . Ln nces Coolidge. Militarist Plans COMMUNISTS EXPOSE TREASON RECORD OF LABOR CZAR WHO PRAISES BOB AS FOE OF REDS Samuel Gompers, arch-traitor to the working class of Ams?- ica; Civic Federation banqueter, cheek by jowl with the open- shop oppressors of labor; deserter in every big American labor battle, is exposed in his reactionary nakedness in an open letter issued yesterday by the Workers Party of America. The official Communist statement follows an attack Gom- pers delivered thru the capitalist press, in which he charges the Communist movement with treachery at the St. Paul convention. Gompers’ attack on the Communists is linked up with a eulogy * 12YEAR GIRL AMONG VICTINS OF LEOPOLD, SR Morris Crimes Bared| by Communist Probe | By KARL REEVE. (Special to the DAILY WORKER) - MORRIS, Ill, August 1.—The businessmen of Morris are keeping silent on the connec- tion of Nathan Leopold, Sr., father of the perverted Franks slayer, with the Morris Paper Mills company, the largest in- dustry in the town. At the same time there is a strong under- current of resentment among the respectable element against the elder Leopolt! for dragging the name of the town into dis- grace. Meanwhile a different kind of resentment is nurtured in the breasts of the 500 young men and girls who work at small wages in the Leopold factory. The workers in the paper box factory care little about the “fair” name of Morris. They know that their slavery at low wages and for long hours to the nachines which grind out Leo- (Continued on Page 2.) Join the Party of Revolutionary Class Struggle can make an effective fight for the interests of the workers. To those workers who want to carry on a clear cut struggle against capital- ism, the Workers Party extends an invitation to rally to its banner. The way is open for building a pow- erful working class revolutionary Party—a Communist Party in prin- efple and in fighting quality, To every member of the Work- ers Party this situation should be the inspiration for an enthusiastic, aggressive fight to build the mem- bership of the Workers Party. The Party slogan “Every member get a member” should be fulfilled dur- ing the coming months. To those workers who have de- veloped sufficient class conscious- ness not to be deluded by the La Follette movement, those workers who still stand outside of the Work- ers Party, the existing situation should be the strongest inducement to align themselves with the revolu- tionary class party— the Workers Party. The Workers Party urges these workers to immediately be- come members of the party. Let us build in this c&mpaign the militant revolutionary class party to fight the capitalist dictatorship and to fight the petty bourgeois misleaders of the workers, Let us go TO¥Ward together under the ban- neyOf the, Communist Party—the Workers. Party-—- and of the Com- munist International, of Senator LaFollette for his opposition to the revolutionary, labor movement. The Communist statement is signed by William Z. Foster, National Chairman and C. E. Ruthenberg, National Executive Secretary of the Workers Par- ty. It follows: Bare Gompers’ Treason The Workers Party of America throws back in your teeth, Mr. Gom- pers, your slanderous charges of polit- ical betrayal made against it yester- day. Charges of political betrayal come with ill grace from you, the arch be- trayer of the American working class. In this particular crisis your Execu- tive Council comes together to’ con- tinue your old policy of “victories for friends and great ‘defeats for ene- mies.” This policy has resulted in low wages, unspeakable working con- ditions, injunctions, and general help- lessness. You are a faithful ally of the capitalistic class. The Republican convention gave you five minutes’ time to plead the cause of Labor and then kicked you in the face. The Democratic conven- tion showed equal contempt for your pleadings. The Republican answer was Strikebreaker Coolidge. The Democratic answer was Morgan-Rock- efeller Lawyer Davis. Thrown Over Now that the two parties of big business have thrown you overboard you are faced with the problem, whether you will join the movement of little business, in which LaFollette is attempting to lead us back to 1776. If you are loyal to the interests of the working class you would flatly repudiate the Republican Party, the Democratic Party and the backward- looking LaFollette movement. You would call upon the workers to unite in the organization of a Farmer-Labor Party and to fight for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. But you and your Socialist and LaFollette allies will not do this, you will again be- tray the interests of the workers of this country. To the Rank and File. Over your head the Workers Party of America appeals to the broad mass- es_of industrial workers and poor farmers. We will fight to mobilize them for independent political action on a platform:representing their class interests. We will wage the struggle against all the representatives of the employing class and the capitalist system itself. As against Coolidge, Davis and La- Follette, we call upon the workers to support the working class candidates, Foster and Gitlow, and the Commu- nist program of the Workers Party of America. - Central Executive Committee, WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA. WILLIAM Z%. FOSTER, National Chairman. C. E. RUTHENBERG, National Executive Secretary. ate - Gompers Endorses LaFollette. ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 1— Sam Gompers departed from his cus- tomary policy of endorsing the Demo- cratic party candidate in a presiden- tial election, when he urged the ex- ecutive council of the American Fed- eration of Labor to place the badge dacy of LaFollette, republican, and of its official approval on the candi- dacy of LaFollette, republican, and Burton K. Wheeler, cemeetey in the coming election, ‘ \